While Senate Democrats spent Thursday eager to applaud the President’s budget, they were equally keen to exploit the contrast and poke at Republicans for their struggles to produce their own list of economic priorities.
so they’re not gonna put together a budget.”
The GOP also decided not to put together a party platform, so they have experience in not doing basic things people expect them to do.
I disagree with the comment made by Senator Bluementhal “that they cannot simply make up numbers”.
The old accounting ditty is that figure don’t lie but liars can figure and the Republican budget plan as has been true for decades will be an exercise in liars figuring.
That is they will claim some magical cost savings and revenue increases, like their favorite lie that tax cuts increase revenue, and announce their plan balances the budget.
From prosecutors, I hope.
Understatement of the day:
“The Republican party is in disarray because they have no basic intellectual integrity,”
Policy? LOL!!! GQP KKKult has no policy positions, just results that it desires, including first and foremost permanent minority-rules white supremacist Christian dominionist neofascist control over our governance and culture. “Achieve what we want by any way we can get it, be it shredding the social contract, burning the Constitution, cheating, lying, propaganda, rigging elections, packing the courts, ignoring the law, rewriting the law, turning public education into conservative indoctrination centers, destroying public education in favor of private indoctrination centers, declaring that religious freedom includes the freedom to discriminate as a way of subjugating everyone else, creating a tiny white supremacist Christian dominionist oligarchy that rules the country through a scam of plutocratic bribery, having a violent coup attempt every 4 years, eventually going widespread violent, nothing being off limits and no holds being barred etc. etc. etc.” is not “policy” and has no room for “policy.”
“They really have no factual basis for the fantasy they’re trying to construct.”
This is the whole situation in a nutshell. And so, they’ll continue trying to dazzle us with B.S., grievance, and vaporware proposals until we’re in danger of hitting the debt ceiling and then hope that the Dems are stampeded into doing something responsible that takes them off the hook.
Trump would take the time to read a letter?
He’d barely take the time to deposit the check that is enclosed.
Just delighting in this:
“I think they have a predicament which is that they are so beholden to extremism and to a little crew of creepy billionaires,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) told TPM[.]
“The Republican party is in disarray because they have no basic intellectual integrity,” Sen. Richard Bluementhal (D-CT) told TPM.
REPUBLICANS IN DISARRAY!!! Will any media report this other than TPM? Not holding my breath…
The GOP wants to rule, not govern.
Govern implies cooperation by the governed
Rule implies control of the ruled
My favorite Republican budget of all time was the one Romney and Paul Ryan put together for their 2016 presidential election campaign.
It promised to cut taxes, greatly increase military spending and not touch any social program. However, to keep politics out of it, they claimed it needed to be kept super secret until after the election. But we should trust them that the numbers added up.
Of course, after the election their plan was never released. Republican, who all said they saw the plan and it was brilliant. When asked why once the election was over, they did not release the plan they claimed it was because they lost. When pointed out that releasing such a great plan especially after losing was the only way to impact policy, they got mad and called the questioner “stupid and liberal”.
Not a single detail other than the promise to cut taxes, raise the defense budget and not touch social programs was ever revealed. Obviously, it is because such a plan never existed. However, it must be noted that the Romney/Ryan super secret budget plan that almost certainly never existed is in my view the least harmful of any budget Republicans ever put forward.
Will it include a copy of the love letter from North Korea?!?!
The Will Rogers’ quote "I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat." needs to be amended to change the political party from Democrat to Republican.
You’re right, that secret budget was hilarious!! Sort of like Paul Ryan’s washing clean dishes…i.e. fake!!
I actually disagree with that comment.
That the GOP has no basic intellectual integrity is what gives it its strength, they can say anything at anytime depending on the audience, the situation, or just because.
What the current problem is for the GOP its power is based on pleasing two totally opposite groups of people, poor whites who need social programs and billionaires.
Even the staid GOP Senators and Governors depended (and still depend) on
FOX News
FOX News viewers
…how else would a zero like Ron Johnson get re-elected?
Dr Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate in Economics, has frequently busted Ryan’s “economic genius” chops. (And wasn’t it 2012 that Romney/Ryan was a thing?) From Day 1, Krugman exposed Ryan’s budgeting foibles and has branded him a liar and charlatan ever since, whenever Ryan’s name pops up in the news.
Economics guru Paul Ryan solved the numbers dilemma in his 2012 “balance the budget” plan.
Translated out of CBO-ese, what that means is that CBO hasn’t looked at whether Ryan’s budget will achieve the results Ryan says it will. Rather, it looked at what will happen assuming Ryan’s budget achieves the results that Ryan says it will.
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Ryan tells CBO to assume his tax plan will raise revenues to 19 percent of GDP and then hold them there. He tells them to assume his Medicare plan will hold cost growth in Medicare to GDP+0.5 percentage points. He tells them to assume that spending on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program won’t grow any faster than inflation. He tells them to assume that all federal spending aside from Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will fall from 12.5 percent of GDP in 2011 to 3.75 percent of GDP in 2050.
Orange Foolius loves to have his butt kissed. He loves those letters